May 28

The defenders of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem surrendered to Jordan's Arab Legion, ending the quarter's Jewish community until 1967.

A total solar eclipse, which Greek tradition says Thales of Miletus had foretold, darkened the battlefield and halted the long war between the Lydians and the Medes.

Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian archaeologist and former Minister of Antiquities known for excavations across Egypt, was born near Damietta.

Nyanatiloka Thera, the German-born monk who became the first modern continental European ordained in the Theravada tradition and founded the Island Hermitage, died in 1957.

Archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati uncovered an intact Bronze Age shaft grave, the 'Griffin Warrior' tomb, near the Palace of Nestor at Pylos.